coderenegade

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by coderenegade 3mo ago
It would depend on what the data says. By the time putting such systems into civil airframes is even a conversation, there will be an enormous amount of data generated by unmanned systems and military vehicles. If the data shows that a give
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
When I last looked into it (admittedly a number of years ago now) this was true for remotely piloted aircraft, but there wasn't enough data on systems that pilot themselves with humans doing the navigating. I'm not convinced that
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
It's unlikely; the energy density just isn't there, even for a hybrid system. Because of the way flight profiles work, you're still talking about enough battery to provide meaningful power for half a flight, which probably is
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
Aerospace as a discipline has tried just about every propulsion system under the sun. What you're proposing has already been flight tested on an unmanned vehicle, albeit with many smaller props for a larger effective prop disk than the
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by coderenegade 3mo ago
The philosophy in aerospace is more to build a better engine rather than to have more engines, and this extends to every aspect of aircraft design. Engines are already built to contain catastrophic failure, and the planes themselves remain
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by coderenegade 4mo ago
The economy is human-serving and human-legible because humans naturally create economies. Even in the most fanciful pie-in-the-sky projections of AI, human economies will still continue to exist and function, even if it's in the form o
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by coderenegade 4mo ago
>Fwiw - you already use defensive everywhere. Python, Java, etc. come with garbage collectors. It's verified that the code is executing your intent. Sort of. Garbage collectors can be fallible too, especially where release optimizat
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by coderenegade 4mo ago
I'm honestly having a hard time visualizing the technique some of you guys seem to be using.
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by coderenegade 4mo ago
I have a few black wattle rounds that have been sitting around for years. I have a go at them whenever I feel like I need to be humbled. There's also a fallen tree at the bottom of our property that blunts chainsaws. It's been the
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by coderenegade 4mo ago
Series hybrids can compete with parallel hybrids, because the full decoupling of the engine from the wheels claws back some of the efficiency you lose through the energy conversion. It's series-parallel hybrids they can't really c
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by coderenegade 4mo ago
It's hard to know for sure. There are good information theoretic reasons to suspect that general models will always be better than smaller expert models, but maybe a MoE can claw some performance back, albeit with redundant computation
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
Yep. These days, simplicity is a massive part of my development style. I don't want to be looking at a codebase, even my own, and thinking "shit, this guy was way smarter than me".
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
There are good information theoretic reasons to suspect that general models will be better than specialized ones, because knowledge and skills often overlap different areas, sometimes in surprising and unintuitive ways. And yes, I'm aw
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
It is, but they have different use cases. CadQuery uses a geometry kernel that does boundary representation, which you need for path generation for modern manufacturing tooling. OpenSCAD produces a standard mesh representation (i.e. triangl
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
The context here is that at one point, IBM was an innovator and global leader in the technology space before it got outcompeted. It was the first company to cross a $100 billion market cap. If you think of the IBM of 50 years ago as being r
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
IBM got to where it is today by being complacent and not keeping up with innovation. Google is notably at the forefront of innovation, in a driving seat, and that innovation directly stands to benefit one of their core businesses in a way t
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
Google is in an incredibly strong position. They're a top tier AI vendor, and in a world where content creation is largely commoditized and outsourced to AI, advertising companies will determine what gets seen, and what gets buried in
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
The policy is how you select your actions -- in this case, the next token. It can be random, but it doesn't have to be. "Deterministically choose the best action" is a valid policy (we would call it the greedy policy), as lon
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
The distillation risk has been brewing for a while now. In a very real sense, the model is the data, so if the data is locked down because of how valuable it is, it was only a matter of time before fully open access to the models would be
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by coderenegade 5mo ago
You only get good at the things you actually do. Our ancestors had to maintain a minimum level of fitness in order to be able to eat -- a level that most people today never reach, because the modern world has removed that need. Thinking is
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by coderenegade 6mo ago
The problem is that if you don't stick to truth and make an attempt at objectivity, others will step in to fill the void. This is how you sow division and undermine trust in science.
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by coderenegade 6mo ago
If anything, the golden age of third places coincided with the golden age of suburbanization, which was obviously heavily car dependent. Their death almost certainly has more to do with financialization making it harder for small businesses
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by coderenegade 6mo ago
Cars won because they were (and are) better than the alternatives. The need for powerful individual transportation with utility has always existed, and was originally met with horses. Bicycles meet the transportation need, but not the need
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by coderenegade 6mo ago
Except rural communities are both more car dependent than cities, and have more tightly knit communities, so isolation probably isn't just a function of owning cars. Cars are probably the wrong mode of transportation for large cities
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by coderenegade 6mo ago
The issues the US faces are political and humanitarian (and economic) rather than military. I don't see any compelling evidence that the US couldn't open the straits if it really wanted to, it's just that the cost in lives an
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by coderenegade 6mo ago
Does this use a boundary representation for the geometry?
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by coderenegade 7mo ago
I for one can't wait for ChatGPT-style sexting to become a thing. It's not just dirty talk. It's a whole new paradigm in verbal filth. On the topic of sora, though: current models are astounding. I watched a clip of Leonidas,
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by coderenegade 7mo ago
This is my take as well. A human who learns, say, a Towers of Hanoi algorithm, will be able to apply it and use it next time without having to figure it out all over again. An LLM would probably get there eventually, but would have to do it
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by coderenegade 7mo ago
That's just not true at all. There are entire fields that rest pretty heavily on brute force search. Entire theses in biomedical and materials science have been written to the effect of "I ran these tests on this compound, and the
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by coderenegade 7mo ago
This. Code generation is cheap, so you can rapidly explore the space and figure out the architecture that best suits the problem. From there, I start fresh and pseudocode the basic pattern I want and have Claude fill in the gaps.

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